Quote: Easy writing
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. – Sholem Asch
On motivation.. (or lack of)
< something I wrote yesterday > “I work in a motivation vacuum. Any motivation I ever had, even what was stored in reserve, is sucked out of my being as soon as I walk through the doors. No matter how inspiring the weekend, how urgent the task at hand, the nagging and stropping of my […]
On a wet and windy night
A wet and windy night met her at the door and accompanied her to the entrance of the station. She was almost glad of the company. The day had started so well. That surprised her. Recently, her days had all started with a bleary haze, been greeted with a grumpy monolgue of varying lengths and […]
Dear ticketmachine…
Thank you so much dear ticket machine. You must know how much I love getting to stations on time with the right money, typing my destination and how many tickets I need into your slightly greasy screen only to then miss the train I came to catch because you don’t like the taste of my […]
Quote: reading without effort
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. – Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Quote – write the books you want to read
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison
Skiing – part 2 – skiing
🙂 🙂  🙂 🙂 🙂 Skiing is cool 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 As I said in part 1, the piste is less than half an hour from my Ski-partner’s house, and he lives just over an hour away (assuming you use public transport and it’s snowing. If you drove on a sunny day […]
Quote: Can’t v. will…
Remember: The people who say you can’t are probably the ones most scared that you will. – apparently Usher (though I think I’ve heard/read it from other sources…)
On skiing – part one – planning and ironing
I’m going skiing tomorrow!! 🙂 Yay 🙂 It’s snowed quite a lot this week and skiing’s cool, so when I looked out of the window at lunchtime and realised it was the weekend soon I emailed a friend and we organised an afternoon’s skiing. He lives about half an hour away from a piste with […]
Quote: writing …
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. – Anais Nin
On baby chickens and other Mystery Guests
I found the skeleton of a baby bird in my bathroom vent (see Day 14). It was well and truely dead (as in, only the bones were left) but it still made me queasy. It’s snowed here so I couldn’t really bury it properly. I dropped it off my balcony into the bushes instead. As […]
On late nights and strange men
– Thanks Ed Sheeran for the title 😉 – This is a post I’ve been wanting to write for a week*. I can’t say I didn’t have time, because I had as much time as in any other week, I just used it for other things… 😉 I think it’s going to be a long […]
Quote – writer …
I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter. – James Michener
On changing sides
-or how I waged war on the workshop- This morning I left my role of victim and became the perpetrator. This morning I asked/told my colleague about my brilliant idea. He took it far better than I thought he was going to, simply replying sardonically; “it’s a good thing you don’t go on holiday more […]